• After years of silence, embarrassment to modern music Sufjan Stevens has finally revealed that his dead-in-the-water 50 states project was, “such a joke.” It’s easy to deny the truthfulness of one’s artistic intentions when you’re a complete fucking moron and you suddenly realize you cannot possibly achieve the goal you have set for yourself. [...]
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Sufjan Stevens Lies, Gilroy Has UFOs, Giant Jellyfish Win, The Yankees Suck, And More…
Burgers And Clothes
Just so you know, I made my most recent post for WFMU’s Beware Of The Blog earlier today. You can find a link to all my posts for that website on the right-side column near the top of this page. It’s about the records I bought at the fair this year. If you are not [...]
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Film Review: Krautrock The Rebirth Of Germany
A recent thread on the Electrical Audio forum keyed me into an available download of the recent BBC documentary entitled Krautrock – The Rebirth Of Germany. As an avid fan of German progressive/experimental music from the late ’60s and early ’70s, it offered fascinating insight into the lives of many of the musicians commonly linked [...]
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Letters To No One: Coca-Cola Company
Before I begin this open letter to Coca-Cola Company, I’d like to make two announcements:1) The wonderful folks at Temporary Residence Ltd. were kind enough to donate a prize for this week’s Swan Fungus poll. The topic this week — as you can see by looking at the left side-bar — is choose your favorite [...]
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Room For One
This was written March 17th, 2005. A few days after I officially started this blog! (I don’t have a recent free-write to share so I went into the archives)Square one says you have begun, and this is your path to salvation. The journey will be impossible. You shouldn’t bother starting. The end for you is [...]
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 164
Sorry I forgot to post this on Sunday!RULES for uninitiated noobs: With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link all the songs together, other [...]
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Odd-y-ssey: Day 10 (The Last Day)
My trip back east ended not with a bang, but a whimper. I began my day with a 3-mile run, then fixed myself a rather large breakfast (two-egg omelet with the yummy habanero Vermont cheddar, a half a plain bagel and a whole wheat bagel). I was slow to shower and dress myself, but once [...]
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Odd-y-ssey: Day 9
Thursday. The trip is drawing to a close. An early morning appointment forced me out of bed before I would have liked, but a neurotic piece of shit like me would gladly surrender an hour or two of sleep for a relatively clean bill of health. I had a bagel for breakfast. That makes, like, [...]
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Odd-y-ssey: Day 8
Wegmans. I finally go to Wegmans today. I rose from slumber relatively early, went for a run at the gym in my mother’s condo development, and then she and I drove through the rain to Woodbridge for some sweet, sweet Wegmans. I had the 7″ buffalo chicken finger sandwich combo, and she got some other [...]
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Odd-y-ssey: Day 7
Today was a lazy day. I had a bagel and watched about six hours of television before my mother and sister bothered to check-in on me. I had two hilarious conversations — with Z and Ken — where they filled in my blank spots in timeline of what happened last night.At some point, after a [...]
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Odd-y-ssey: Day 6
Oof. Last night. Wow. I’m definitely not feeling it today. Who would have thought an otherwise boring day (lunch with sister, a trip to the mall with mom) would turn out so completely insane.My sister suggested we go to a sports bar for Monday Night Football. I invited along Ken, Katie and Z. Elissa invited [...]
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Odd-y-ssey: Day 5
No sleep. It was so fucking cold on Ian’s couch. I think at 6am I had to turn his air conditioner up from 60 to 66 degrees. At 7 or 8am I had to turn it up from 66 degrees to 70 degrees. At 9, when Ian woke up to take his dog for a [...]
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Odd-y-ssey: Day 4
Rare records and apple juice — a man in heaven.I woke up on time this morning! 8:30am, for chrissake. My commitment to this job-away-from-work is amazing! I showered, ate a fiber-enriched health breakfast treat my mom thought I would like, then left for the record fair. I picked up Ian and Jon outside of their [...]
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Odd-y-ssey: Day 3
My alarm did not sound as it was supposed to this morning. I woke up 30 minutes before I was supposed to be in the city to meet my boss and some of his record dealer friends. Somehow, I showered, dressed and got there in 45 minutes. I was kind of amazed. Load-in was slightly [...]
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Odd-y-ssey: Day 2
If you’ve come here from the WFMU blog seeking more photographs of the foliage in New Jersey, I suggest you go back and take a closer look at the pictures I posted over there. Surely you caught all the sasquatch, right? RIGHT? Oh my God. You’re going to sit there and tell me you didn’t [...]
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Odd-y-ssey: Day 1
Like Odysseus before me, the first day began early. Really early. We didn’t retire to bed until after 1am (Nicci is being caught up on FlashForward), and I was up an hour before the alarm was scheduled to awaken us. As it turned out, I was at the airport entirely too early. I was the [...]
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So Long, Los Angeles!
Tomorrow I make my triumphant return to the East Coast. I’ll be visiting family and friends, and working at the WFMU Record Fair. To say that this vacation is much needed would be quite an understatement; I feel very worn down and am in need of a stress-free environment. I suppose that might sound a [...]
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 163
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Track:Modern World
When I left work this evening, it was for the last time…well, at least for the next two weeks. Nicci returns from Alabama tomorrow, so I’ve taken the day off, and Tuesday off, before I leave for New York on Wednesday. It kind of sucks that she couldn’t get the theater company to fly her [...]
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The Top Ten Things To Do While Stuck In LA Traffic
I’m feeling a little bit better today. In case you’re not my friend on Facebook or you don’t follow me on Twitter, I became ill yesterday morning and spent the next several hours in bed. I vomited for the first time since 1999! Then I went to the gym and ran three miles, just to [...]
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